Towel-rack.



I. G. PAINTON.

TOWEL RACK.

APPLICATION FILED AuG.2.1912.

Patented May 11, 1.915.

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JOSEPH G. PAINTON, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GUSTAVE DIETRICH, 0F BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

TOWEL-RACK.

Application filed August 2, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH G. PAINTON, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Buffalo, county of Erie, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Towel-Racks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

It is well known to those managing public institutions that where a large number of individual hand towels are used by the public, many towels are either lost or stolen.

The general object of my invention has been to provide a device which shall permit the convenient use of clean individual hand towels and also prevent unauthorized persons from removing such towels from the place where used. With these objects in view, I have provided a device which is cheap to manufacture and easily installed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, in which like characters of reference indicate like parts, throughout the several views of which:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the device shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan view of the bearing bracket of my device. Fig. 5 shows a fragmental portion of one of the towels for my device which are each provided with an eyelet.

My device comprises a towel rod 10, the end 11 of which is preferably pivotally carried by the bearing bracket 12. The other end 13 of the towel rod is supported by a bracket 14. The towel rod 10 is provided with a horizontally disposed portion 15, which is preferably formed at the center thereof with a circular-shaped downwardly extending bend 16, in which one of the towels 17 hangs ready for use. Extending downwardly from the portion 15 of the towel rod are vertically disposed portions 18 and 19 which terminate in the ends 11 and 13 respectively. The portion 18 of the rod is provided with a hinged joint 20 and the part 21 of the rod which connects portion 18 with the end 11 is preferably disposed at an incline as shown, so that when the towel is moved to the right, as viewed in Fig. 1, it will fall into a suitable receptacle. The clean towels are supported by the part 22 of Specification of Letters Eatent.

Patented May 11, 1915.

Serial No. 712,896.

the towel rod 10. This part 22 is preferably disposed in substantially a horizontal position and connects the portion 19 of the rod with the end 13. The brackets 12 and 14 are secured to the wall 23 and have arranged over them a clean towel receptacle 24 and a soiled towel receptacle 25, respectively, which are also secured to the wall 23, preferably by means of the hooks shown.

The bearing bracket 12 is provided with two lugs 26 and 27 through each of which is provided an aperture 28 and slots 29 extending radially therefrom. The end 11 of the rod 10 is provided with a rigid collar 30 which bears on the upper surface of the lug 26 and thus supports this end of the towel rod. Near the lower part of the end 11 of the towel rod is rigidly secured a pin 31 which is disposed immediately beneath the lug 27 and in such a position that it is engageable with the slots 29, 29 only when the towel rod is revolved 90 degrees from the position shown in the drawings.

.The bracket 14 is provided with lugs 32 and 33, each of which is provided with a suitable aperture for the reception of the end 13 of the rod 10. A removable key 34 is provided in the end 13 of the towel rod and is arranged immediately beneath the lug 33 of the bracket 14 when this end of the rod is in place. One end of the key is provided with a lug 35, so as to prevent its being drawn through the aperture in the rod and the other end of the key is provided with an aperture for the reception of a padlock 36.

Each of the towels used with my device is provided at one corner with an eyelet 37, as shown in Fig. 5. These towels are strung on to the part 22 of the towel rod and normally hang within the receptacle 24 at the place indicated by the numeral 38. The clean towel receptacle 24 is provided in its front and top with a slot 39 and when a clean towel is desired, it is removed from the receptacle 24 through the slot 39 therein and preferably moved along the rod to the bend 16. When a towel has become soiled, it is moved out of the bend 16 and along the part 15 sufficiently to allow it to fall down the portions 18 and 21 into the soiled towel receptacle 25, the top of which is open.

When it is desired to remove the soiled towels from my rack and replace them with clean ones, the padlock 36 is removed from the key 84 and the key is withdrawn from the end 13of the towel rod. This end of the rod is now withdrawn from the bracket 14 and the rod swung up out of the way of the bracket 14, whereupon the towels may be readily removed from the rod or placed thereon.

Obviously, if desired, the portionl8 of the towel rack may extend to the floor and be set in a suitable socket provided with an aperture and slots similar to the lugs on the bracket 12 or the end 11 of the towel rod may also be provided with a bracket similar to the bracket 14 and provided withsimilar locking means. These and other modifications of the details herein shown and described may be made' without departing from the spirit of my invention or the scope of the appended claim, and I do not Wish to be limited to the exact embodiment herein shown and described. r

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

A towel rack comprising bearing brackets provided with lugs, each of said lugs having a central aperture, and a towel rodhaving 7 other of said brackets, said towel rod being so formed that it has acentral horizontal portion above said bearing brackets and vertical side portions extending downwardly towardv said bearing brackets.

In testimony whereof, l have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscrlblng witnesses. 7

Witnesses:

G. DIETRICH, CHARLES W. STRONG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' i Washington, 1L0.

JOSEPH or; PAINTONQ 

